This Is The End (2013)

This Is The End Synopsis

The comedy This Is The End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

While most of the characters in Rogen and Goldberg’s This Is The End find a way to get raptured and taken off to heaven, that was not the fate that wound up being orchestrated for James Franco. Instead, a plan to "sacrifice" himself in the third act of the movie goes horribly awry, and he winds up getting eaten by Danny McBride and his team of cannibals.

There are few things Hollywood movie studios do more than obsess over release dates. They are put together years in advance like a giant jigsaw puzzle. In theory, you would think every single movie would scratch and claw to get the easiest competition possible, but sometimes, the best thing a flick can do is find the biggest, most splashy entry on the calendar and position itself as counter-programming.

Last year was a pretty fantastic one for movie music. Directors like David O. Russell, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino and Ben Affleck made not only fantastic films, but also beautifully crafted soundtracks that blended perfectly with the story and visuals on screen. As a result, 2013 had a lot to live up to, but looking back on the last twelve months reveals that this year’s crop of filmmakers were more than up for the task.

The Quentin Tarantino Archives has released a list of the esteemed director’s favorite films of the year so far. Personally, I was surprised by several of his picks, so I thought I’d test the rest of you to see if from the twenty films listed you can figure out which titles are really on his top ten.

Rogen also told MTV his theory behind what made this comedy work for both critics and audiences. “I think a lot of movies with big casts do a thing where they break everyone up and distribute the people throughout the movie and maybe there’s one scene that they’re all in together,” he said. “We really went out of our way to not do that."

This is The End is easily one of the funniest films to be released this year, and while its story is rather simple it makes up for it by being incredibly hilarious. If you haven't already seen the film I would highly recommend checking it out this weekend, and if you have already seen it then you're probably already thinking about going again.

Apocalyptic-themed movies, including comedies, have been trendy for a few years now, but that didn’t stop Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg from producing the apocalyptic comedy This is the End. As it turns out, this is a good thing, since the film is both audacious and a riot for any celebrity enthusiasts. Fans of the film will be pleased to learn This is the End will be hitting Blu-ray, DVD and Digital this fall.

Oh my God, are they back again? Friends and writing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg crushed it when they scripted the crude coming-of-age comedy Superbad years ago, but they really upped the ante with This is the End, an end-of-the-world dark comedy they not only wrote but also directed.

And among its many virtues is a finale that is a total showstopper that features a surprising cameo and has had audiences dancing in their seats. But it turns out this bonkers resolution was not how Rogen and Goldberg originally scripted the end.

After an incredibly successful marketing campaign that's been generating all the right kinds of excitement for months, Man of Steel finally flew into theaters this weekend, dominating the box office and breaking the record for the highest ever opening in the month of June.

It's now on track for $120 million for the weekend proper, with another $12 million on top of that if you count a series of showing on Thursday night held at Wal-Mart (yes, that really happened). That's more than twice what Superman Returns made on its opening weekend in 2006-- that film debuted to $52 million and topped out with just $200 million in the United States, a number Man of Steel ought to be able to pass after its second weekend

Seth Rogen and his co-director Evan Goldberg collected their famous buddies and somehow convinced all of them to play themselves, which left room for a million in-jokes at the expense of nearly every movie the guys have made. Before you get the chance to mock them about the idea of a Pineapple Express 2 or James Franco hanging on to the camera from 127 Hours, believe us, they've made it first

This weekend's This Is The End started off as the short "Jay and Seth vs The Apocalypse," which was essentially about what happens when Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen stop being polite and start getting real… because the world has ended outside their door. Of course, that's a concept that started more than 20 years ago with The Real World

Oh hell yes. It’s on. I rarely get amped for movies but when we’re talking superheroes this is the creme de la creme. The mountaintop. Mount Everest. It’s Superman baby. Do we even need to talk about anything else? In fact we do. The Man of Steel makes his reappearance while Seth Rogen and company deal with the end of the world

This week David Ehrlich, Matt Patches, and Jordan Raup of TheFilmStage.com play themselves in a review of Seth Rogen's directorial debut This Is the End. Rogen alongside James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, and Danny McBride in the apocalyptic comedy, but does the meta-approach work wonders or signal the end of the Apatow era?

Rogen and Goldberg's directorial debut, the film has all of its stars playing versions of themselves and begins as Jay Baruchel flies into Los Angeles to spend some time with his best friend, Seth Rogen. After a bit of pushing, Seth gets Jay to attend a party at James Franco's house - only the festivities are interrupted when the Biblical apocalypse begins to unfold.

With an axe she busted her way into James Franco's house/slapdash strong hold and scared the hell out of its stoner inhabitants (Franco, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson). In the latest clip, she shares with them what she has seen out in this world that is falling apart at the seams.

Anyone who has ever seen a Seth Rogen film knows that he has a healthy appreciation of marijuana. Not only do his characters regularly smoke, the guy even wrote a movie - Pineapple Express - which is titled after a specific strain.

After Disney's big presentation this morning, which featured an extended look at The Lone Ranger and the first screening of Monsters University, it was Sony's turn this evening to show off their upcoming slate, which showed a good deal of material from just about every movie that the studio has coming out in 2013.

On some set visits, you spend a lot of time talking to the people who make the film look the way it does, from the production designers to the costumers to the director, all of them showing you their amazing special effects and the unique world they've created, usually within a soundstage. And while the effects on This Is The End will no doubt be impressive-- directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg still seemed slightly amazed that Sony even gave them the budget they had-- the movie is really all about the talking

" 'More blood' is something that's said often on this set." And here I thought I had traveled to New Orleans last June to visit the set of a comedy. It starred a laundry list of likable dudes from the Apatow orbit-- Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride-- and was marking the directorial debut of Rogen and his childhood friend Evan Goldberg

Given how often apocalypse movies are set in Los Angeles, and the never-ending threat of an earthquake that will send all of California out to sea, you'd think at least a couple of famous people would have a disaster plan in mind. But as we can see in this brand-new clip from This is The End, apparently all there is is an assumption that they'll rescue the famous people first-- and a deep, totally understandable desire not to die in James Franco's house

This past weekend I tripped down to the Anaheim Convention Center where I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with both Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the writers and directors of the new apocalyptic comedy due out this summer.

April Fools! OK, you probably didn't fall for it, since we're not cruel enough to go with their joke in our headline, but it's fun to pretend for at least a little while that this really is the low-budget sequel to Pineapple Express that James Franco, Seth Rogen, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson made in their house, somehow stealing the original costumes from the Sony props department and convincing David Gordon Green to sign off on it

When you stick Seth Rogen, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill and Danny McBride all in a room together you know that their conversation is going to be extremely funny. But if you put that same conversation against the backdrop of the end of the world it just takes it all to a while new level of hilarious. And in the first trailer for This is The End the crew of comedians make it work brilliantly.

The idea for the feature came from a project that Rogen and Baruchel did together a few years ago. Titled Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse, the movie was actually a fake trailer about Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen living together after the biblical end of days has occurred. The short film made it looks like the comedy will entirely be set in one location and have all of the characters fighting with each other a la Roman Polanski's Carnage.

The film will mark the directorial debut of both Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who are best known as writing partners who produced scripts for Superbad, Pineapple Express, Green Hornet and the upcoming Neighborhood Watch (they also wrote the script for The Apocalypse). The story will follow Rogen, Hill, McBride, Franco, Robinson and Jay Baruchel as they are holed up in Franco's Los Angeles apartment.

With the extra players involved it would seem that the original plot has undergone a bit of a facelift, but it may very well be for the best. Some of the best comedic actors working today teaming up to face down demons and zombies in the rapture? You couldn’t stop me from watching that movie.

The title Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse has been floating around since June 2007, when it was a joke trailer starring Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel, who at the time were starring together in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up. A year later word got out that they were making an actual movie about it

To be honest, Jay & Seth vs. The Apocalypse seemed like a Judd Apatow bubble project that was never going to be made. Greenlit in 2008, just a year after Rogen ruled the summer with Knocked Up and Superbad

It was around this time last year when we hipped you to a fake trailer in which Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel survive the Apocalypse together, and then get on each other’s nerves. At the time, nobody was entirely sure what it was supposed to be for, we did however know that it was one minute and twenty-five seconds. Well now we know what Seth and Jay were up to

I have no idea what this next project is supposed to be – just a joke trailer or presumably a short film and not a full length feature, but I think I could even handle a feature if the trailer is any indication. This trailer has appeared online for Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse. It looks like Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen playing themselves in a post-apocalyptic “last man on the planet” type environment... and getting on each other's nerves.